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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Aerodynamics Engineer to join the Air Dominance and Strike Aerodynamics Engineering Team, responsible for advanced aerodynamic design and analysis of Group 5 unmanned air vehicles and missile platforms. You will own the full development lifecycle from conceptual design through flight test planning, execution, and analysis, ensuring high-performance, resilient, and scalable systems for complex, contested environments.
Key responsibilities include: aerodynamic design of unmanned air vehicles and missiles at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities; aerodynamic analysis using both low and high-order methods, including tool development and improvement; stability and control analysis; aircraft performance modeling and simulation; aerodynamic loads generation; wind tunnel test planning, execution, and analysis; and flight test planning, execution, and analysis.
Required qualifications: BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering; 8+ years of work experience as an individual contributing engineer; experience with aircraft performance and analysis predictions; competency in various aerodynamic analysis techniques including hand calculations, vortex lattice methods, panel methods, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD); wind tunnel and flight test experience including data acquisition, analysis, and project coordination; strong programming skills in higher-level languages such as MATLAB or Python for internal tool development in version-controlled environments; experience preparing formal documentation including specifications, test procedures, and technical reports; U.S. citizenship or eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Preferred qualifications include: StarCCM+ experience; ice accretion or icing analysis experience; Missile DATCOM, OTIS, or DYMOS experience; experience with transonic and supersonic flow regimes; and active U.S. Secret security clearance.
